You know – ‘Uncle Tony’, the flamboyant big mouth who used to dominate DC power networks.

Do YOU Know Tony Podesta?

Anthony T. Podesta, already among Washington’s canniest and best-connected deal makers (number 16 this year on The Washingtonian magazine’s list of the city’s 50 most powerful lobbyists), is accelerating. At 55, he’s a lifelong liberal Democrat with a small lobbying firm that brings in around $7 million a year representing some of the most prominent corporations on Earth. His specialty: the difficult and often mutually mistrustful interface between information-age businesses and the world of Washington. His strength: a surprising ability to close the deal leaving everyone happy. It’s an approach that resonates equally with businessmen steeped in the win-win jargon of negotiations and politicians deep in the pragmatic you-scratch-my-back-I’ll-scratch-yours conversations that make Washington run. Podesta appears to be the ideal matchmaker for any high tech company needing to do business on Capitol Hill, in the White House, or wherever regulation, trade, and government contracts are on the table. And these days that’s just about everywhere.

Podesta Associates was launched in 1988 by Tony and his younger brother John, an expert on law and technology who had worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee. Wired

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Ah the good ‘ole days, eh Tony? Hanging out with John, Bill, Hilldog and Eric while the money rolled in. Fun times with the WHOLE gang.

Tony?

It’s coming up to a month since anyone heard from, or saw, Tony Podesta. He has literally vanished. You’ll recall that Podesta stepped down as CEO of his own lobbying business, The Podesta Group on 30 October. Since then, the business has vaporized. No sign of Tony, though. This was just after the hammers fell on Papadopoulos (the Fusion GPS plant inside Trump’s campaign), Manafort (the Podesta plant) & Gates. These associations are directly linked to Tony, but again, no sign of him. We did hear from his lawyer, one Geoffrey Garinther, of law firm Venables LLP. His specialty? Defending individuals charged with white collar crimes, such as money laundering, racketeering, fraud & tax evasion (cough, splutter). The lawyer was VERY sensitive about an explosive allegation made by Tucker Carlson that Podesta & Manafort were being paid by Moscow (with no disclosure) to influence US policy while Hillary Clinton was SOS:

A thus-far-reliable source who used to be involved with Clinton allies John and Tony Podesta told Tucker Carlson that press reports appearing to implicate President Trump in Russian collusion are exaggerated.

The source, who Carlson said he would not yet name, said he worked for the brothers’ Podesta Group and was privy to some information from Robert Mueller’s special investigation.

While media reports describe former “Black, Manafort & Stone” principal Paul Manafort as Trump’s main tie to the investigation, the source said it is Manafort’s role as a liaison between Russia and the Podesta Group that is drawing the scrutiny. FoxNews

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AND suggestions of an improper connection between Tony Podesta & the Clinton Foundation. Carlson, to his credit, told the lawyer to take a hike.

Back to the lawyer. Interesting to see Garinther bio has been removed from the firm’s web site. I found it elsewhere, which confirms his expertise and government experience. Another interesting coincidence : in 2005, Garinther faced off (and lost) against Rod Rosenstein, also a respected anti-corruption attorney & conservative, to be the AG of Maryland;

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Lawyer at Justice front-runner for Md. post

Rosenstein top contender to be next U.S. attorney – Known for conservative bent. Rod J. Rosenstein, a Justice Department official untethered to the state’s political power structure, has emerged as the leading contender to become the next U.S. attorney in Maryland, sources confirmed this week. Rosenstein, 40, serves as principal deputy assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s tax division. Known by some for his conservative ideological bent, including past membership in the Federalist Society, Rosenstein might have achieved his highest profile to date as a prosecutor for Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr. BaltimoreSun

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Seems like Tony’s engaged the only top white collar crime lawyer in DC that’s not on Mueller’s team (and who is willing to represent him). That’s bad luck for Tony, isn’t it? Anyway. If there’s anyone who sits at the nexus of power & corruption in the USA, it’s Tony Podesta. He knows EVERYTHING about EVERYONE.

Especially the Clinton’s and their cronies. That’s because he has been one of the Clinton’s ‘money bundlers’ for years.

I wrote a thread recently explaining how their money laundering worked with Uranium One. The CF would receive donations from U1 / Russia via a charity in Canada. Under Canadian law, charities don’t have to reveal the ID of donors. The money would then be transferred to the CF in the USA and mixed in with other funds, before being diverted to the Clinton’s themselves. See

Another way they could launder dirty money for ‘pay to play’ was via lobbying firms. By that, I mean The Podesta Group. It’s quite simple. Tony was a broker for ‘pay for play’. Under the cover of a ‘lobbyist’, he’d work out what a ‘donor’ wanted & transmit it to the Clinton’s via his brother, John. The Clinton’s would demand a price and once the ‘play’ was agreed, the ‘pay’ would be made. That would be a transfer from a donor to the CF, speaking fees for Bill & a cut for Tony, usually a monthly fee from the ‘donor’. Tony often hid his connection by not registering as a lobbyist. God only knows how the Clinton’s rewarded him.

It’s a very effective scheme. The donation to the Foundation is never connected to the ‘pay for play’ & the Clinton’s can plausibly deny any wrongdoing, bribe officials to shut down or slow walk investigations, or threaten/intimidate anyone suspicious.

20. The amounts donated by dodgy regimes and individuals are eye watering. We are talking $ hundreds of millions of not more. It’s a rogues gallery, too:

Why Did the Saudi Regime and Other Gulf Tyrannies Donate Millions to the Clinton Foundation?

As the numerous and obvious ethical conflicts surrounding the Clinton Foundation receive more media scrutiny, the tactic of Clinton-loyal journalists is to highlight the charitable work done by the foundation, and then insinuate — or even outright state — that anyone raising these questions is opposed to its charity. James Carville announced that those who criticize the foundation are “going to hell.” Other Clinton loyalists insinuated that Clinton Foundation critics are indifferent to the lives of HIV-positive babies or are anti-gay bigots.

That the Clinton Foundation has done some good work is beyond dispute. But that fact has exactly nothing to do with the profound ethical problems and corruption threats raised by the way its funds have been raised. The Intercept

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Ukraine, Saudis, Qatar, China etc etc. This was going on for years, but especially when Hillary was SoS. For some reason, I don’t think these regimes & individuals were motivated by altruism.

From 2009 up to 2013, the year the Ukrainian crisis erupted, the Clinton Foundation received at least $8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, which is headquartered in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, a new report claims.

In 2008, Viktor Pinchuk, who made a fortune in the pipe-building business, pledged a five-year, $29-million commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative, a program that works to train future Ukrainian leaders “to modernize Ukraine.” The Wall Street Journal revealed the donations the fund received from foreigners abroad between 2009-2014.

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And everywhere you look, Tony Podesta seems to be the middleman/ broker in the middle. Seems odd, doesn’t it? And now his activities seem to be on behalf of Putin himself (with Manafort). There are numerous probes about what Podesta, Manafort (& the Clinton’s) were up to, but all this was happening during the time of U1. Which Podesta was ALSO a ‘lobbyist’ for, which he forgot to disclose. I’m sure that’s just another coincidence.

The reality? As will be revealed over the weeks and months ahead, the Clinton’s were at the apex of a sophisticated organized crime network, at the heart of the United States government. Drunk on power, they were destroying the Republic for money. It’s aka treason.

Organized crime ultimately relies on omerta & a network of compromised individuals. If that’s blown away, the structure falls apart very quickly. In the 1980s, they would flip an insider to bring down mob leaders, eg John Gottien.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Gra…

The kill shot is the event that exposes exposes the ringleaders and gets the key insiders to squawk.

For the Clinton’s, their kill shot was on Nov 8, 2016.

So, again, where IS Tony? There are so many questions I’d like to ask him. I’ve checked everywhere in my house, under all the beds and in the cupboards, but he’s not here. He loves Italian food & I’ve left out the best pizza, but nothing works.

Is he at your house?

He WAS spotted at Hillary’s birthday ‘celebration’ on 30 October with the whole gang. Perhaps he never got out alive:

But given what he knows, it’s far more likely he’s at a secure location under heavy protection, CUTTING a DEAL.

And singing like a canary to save his bacon.

After all, as this nasty piece of work boasted in the 1998 article at the start of this thread,

“We have no permanent allies. We have no permanent enemies. We just have interests.”

In other words : ‘Bye, Hillary. Bye, Bill. Bye, Eric. And all the others. It was good while it lasted, amigos.’

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